love hate
Passionate contradictory feelings
Love hate describes a relationship or attitude marked by simultaneous or alternating feelings of affection and animosity toward the same person or thing.
Often hyphenated when used as a modifier: I have a love-hate relationship with social media.
The phrase captures the tension of being drawn to something that also frustrates or repels you.
- passionIntense emotional drive
- thin lineNarrow separating boundary
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- emotionComplex psychological state
- intenseExtreme in degree
desire · loathe · adore · despise · jealousy · devotion · bitter · fierce · burning · rage · push and pull · longing · resentment · heartbreak · rivalry · sworn enemies · enemies · betrayal
emotional intensity
love hateindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · neutrality · detachment · disinterest · unconcern
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